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The Progressive Era

1900-1920

HW#8 DUE TOMORROW

HW#9 DUE TOMORROW

HW#10 (PACKET) DUE FRIDAY

DO NOW: WHAT DOES

PROGRESSIVE MEAN? GIVE AN

EXAMPLE.

I. Results of Industrialization

A. Urban Problems

B. Poor Treatment of workers & child labor

C. Immigration & nativism

D. Gov. corruption

E. Abuses of Big Business

F. Increased inequalities between wealthy & poor

G. Increased power & influence of middle class

H. Discontent among farmers

II. Reforms Demanded

 A. Progressives support the use of government power to bring about reform

1.Use science and technology to improve society

2. Strengthen capitalism

3. Bypass party politics

B. Specific Areas of Concern

1. Poverty & living conditions among the poor

2. women’s suffrage

3. Peace

4. Rights for African-Americans

5. Temperance

6. Anti-defamation

EQ: What problems existed in cities during the

Gilded Age?

 HW#10: Finish Packet (counts as multiple HWs)

A Growler Gang in Session (Robbing a Lush), 1887

Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters, c.1880s

Thomas Nast

C. Key Social Figures

1. Muckrakers – Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell

2. poverty – Jacob Riis, Jane Addams

3. Women – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.

Anthony, Alice Paul

4. African-Americans – Booker T. Washington,

W.E.B. Dubois, Ida Wells, Marcus Garvey

The Progressive Era

1900-1920

HW ON WEB PAGE!!! (EVERY

NIGHT UNTIL MONDAY’S TEST)

DO NOW: WHAT GOALS DID

WOMEN HAVE DURING THE

PROGRESSIVE ERA? (LIST AND

EXPLAIN WHY)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/a ntebellum/majority2a.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/sf eature/sf_words.html# http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/ mgpp/sound.asp

III. Progressivism & the Government

A. Municipal reform (city level)

B. State reform focused on voter participation

(Wisconsin Idea)

 direct primaries initiative referendum recall

C. National Reform

1. President

A)TR, Taft, Wilson

B) Square Deal (TR)

C)New Freedom (WW)

2. Legislative Progressivism

A) RR Regulation – Hepburn Act

B) Consumer protection – Square Deal

C) Conservation – National Parks

D) Underwood Tariff – Reduced Tariffs

E) Graduated Income Tax – 16 th Amendment

F) Clayton Anti-Trust Act – End trusts, strengthen labor

G) Federal Trade Commission – monitor business

H) Federal Reserve System – creates Federal Reserve

Board

3. Supreme Court

A) Lochner v. NY (no limit on contract based work day)

B) Mueller v. Oregon (limit on women’s hours)

C) Northern Securities Co. v. US (trust broken up)

D) Hammer v. Dagenhart (banned child labor)

EQs

1. Where did Progressivism get its start?

2. What did the Progressives hope to achieve?

3. What were the successes of the movement? The failures?

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